Chronicling the political events and personal machinations that brought the exiled Catholic Scottish queen back to Scotland and into direct conflict with the Protestant uprising led by Elizabeth’s forces, Mary Queen of Scots is infused with a modern-day feminist sensibility that, despite its noble intentions, may or may not accurately reflect how things actually went down.

Sassy, saucy and sexy are adjectives that simultaneously describe director Yorgos Lanthimos’s sumptuously dark period comedy and its trio of stellar leading ladies, who seem to revel in the material and deliver some of their best performances as a result.

Let me say it now: I will be surprised if Green Book doesn’t win the Best Picture Oscar in February. From its talented cast to its true-story roots, it has Oscar-bait written all over it. It’s already won multiple film-festival audience awards and is also exactly the type of crowd-pleasing issue film that Hollywood will no doubt want to celebrate and reward, especially given the current social and political climate in the United States. Thankfully, the movie is also well done, so an Oscar victory wouldn’t be unreasonable.

Widows puts an amazing ensemble cast into an intriguing, flipped-on-its-head heist plot, adds a dose of righteous female-badassery, then attaches an acclaimed an Oscar-winning director, and it is... a snoozefest.